[MPlayer-dev-eng] Debian build fails with new Makefiles

[joerg at britannica.bec.de]

On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 09:41:07AM +0200, Attila Kinali wrote:
> Actualy no. /sbin/ is normaly not in the PATH of a normal
> user. And IMHO we shouldnt call ldconfig at all.
> For example, i install all my self compiled stuff via stow.
> Running ldconfig just lets me wait for 10-20s for absolutely
> nothing as the vidix stuff is not even installed where ldconfig
> could find it and i have to run ldconfig after finishing the
> installation process anyways.

Full heartedly agreed. ldconfig is a relict from the aout days on
Operating Systems which never understood the concept of RPATH. Yes, this
means almost any Linux distribution out there. As a side note, e.g.
libtoolified sources would also not call ldconfig, but print a nice
message that it might be needed. I believe that is the est solution.

Joerg